• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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Hi all. I hope you are well. I am a plumber who is actually getting into working with wood. Started off putting up stud walls and so.e alcove units last yr. It has kind of given me a bug. Now I need to build more! I just recently bought a portable table saw, mitre table and router table which are stored under my bed.

Now, the Oracle is doing her nut and so I need a workshop. I have read Mike G's post last night and loved it. Lot of stuff to think about. Tonight I am going to read a few others workshop threads. Exciting Friday night ahead.

I am also excited to read and learn from the other posts on the forum.

Cheers Lee
 
Hi Lee and welcome aboard.

I'm sure there's days if not weeks worth of reading on workshops for you to get through! :lol:

Cheers
Mark
 
Hi. Thanks for approving my post. I have been getting tucked in to some of the workshop builds but cannot see any pics. Will this only happen after I have posted 3 posts?
 
Hi and welcome :)

If you are seeing old threads with no pictures it will be down to photobucket stopping free picture hosting and no longer allowing forums to show them. We now have picture uploads direct to the forum here but that doesn't fix the old threads. it does mean the loss of pictures will not happen again though.

The 3 posts thing is just to stop a spammer from joining and showing who knows what dodgy stuff before someone can stop them.
 
Thanks for the quick response. I have been looking at the newest builds 1st. Tried hussy's build but no pics. I dud manage to get Mike G's pics of his build. Again, @thanks for the help
 
Yo! Welcome form Devon. You sure know how to enjoy a Friday night!!


If there's any pictures from my build you'd like to see, let me know.
 
You read my thread in a night! Wow....

Oh........right.........the workshop. Well, put aside a week. I've got another one you might take a look at. :lol:

Welcome.
 
Hi and welcome from me too.

You have posted 3 times now so spam trap has gone. This wont help with viewing old photos unfortunately but at least you can now post your own.
 
Mike G":2ol3w3i0 said:
You read my thread in a night! Wow....

Oh........right.........the workshop. Well, put aside a week. I've got another one you might take a look at. :lol:

Welcome.
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Yes the workshop. Started on your extension last night but caved at 1am when I realised it was 100 + pages long. Will check that one out gradually.

Excited for the new build.
 
20171002_153231.jpgSo here are some steps I made. They are just a temporary solution since I removed the old concrete and timber deck that was there which were rotten and falling apartView attachment 1

Here is a carbunkle we inherited. So this will be a project as well

I really enjoyed making the stringers for the steps with little stair clamps and roofing square. Remember, I am a novice at woodwork

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IMG-20170526-WA0013.jpgNot woodwork but this is what I did during early summer. So I removed 5 skips worth of rubble and soil and brought In 30 tonnes of topsoil and 300 squre metres of turf. I am happy with the result.
 
I also have an idea for a pop up table in the lounge. I just need to get the wife to come around to it.

We have suspended timber floors which have quite a nice void below. What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

I hope I am allowed to post that here. If Not, Sorry.

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
 
Mutley racers":1hxnikpm said:
I also have an idea for a pop up table in the lounge. I just need to get the wife to come around to it.

We have suspended timber floors which have quite a nice void below. What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

I hope I am allowed to post that here. If Not, Sorry.

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
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I built a heavy duty lifting mechanism for a 1/4 ton thicknesser which works well but a big engineering job and way OTT for what you need. There is a write up here
http://www.thewoodhaven2.co.uk/viewtopi ... =23&t=1665

In your position I'd look at adapting a concealed TV lift mechanism. You will need to endure that in the lowered position, the floor will be adequately supported and NOT by the lift mechanism.

Bob
 
You've done a cracking job of the garden and the table idea sounds like an interesting project too. Looking forward to seeing that one develop.
 
Tusses":m2qleqwa said:
and as I always see the danger in everything .. well , it's a curse I picked up when I had kids! .. beware of trapping hazards when it goes back down :-)
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You can but commercially available 'trap sensors' that can deal with that. [emoji1360]

Cheers
Mark
 
Mutley racers":30fen7cn said:
I also have an idea for a pop up table in the lounge. I just need to get the wife to come around to it.

We have suspended timber floors which have quite a nice void below. What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

I hope I am allowed to post that here. If Not, Sorry.

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
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Great idea! Yes, that can be made to work.

Nice work in the garden, BTW. That looks like a whole lot of effort.
 
Hi Lee

Those crappy conservatories must be a Surrey speciality. Here's a pic of mine starting to come down. Whereabouts are you, I'm between Dorking and Guildford

Mark
 

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If I recall the home counties, the Surrey ones were posh!

In Middlesex, they were wood and corrugated plastic!
 
the bear":19giwipd said:
Hi Lee

Those crappy conservatories must be a Surrey speciality. Here's a pic of mine starting to come down. Whereabouts are you, I'm between Dorking and Guildford

Mark
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Hi. Yours is definitely posher than mine. The wife would like it to be as yours is, a utility room. I am right next to Hampton Court
 
Mike G":32aeeyo9 said:
Mutley racers":32aeeyo9 said:
I also have an idea for a pop up table in the lounge. I just need to get the wife to come around to it.

We have suspended timber floors which have quite a nice void below. What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

I hope I am allowed to post that here. If Not, Sorry.

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
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Great idea! Yes, that can be made to work.

Nice work in the garden, BTW. That looks like a whole lot of effort.
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It was a whole lot of effort and I wad on me Tod as well. I thought I was mad when half way through but when my boy ran on the lawn for the 1st time it made it soon worth it
 
Tusses":281b4t4k said:
and as I always see the danger in everything .. well , it's a curse I picked up when I had kids! .. beware of trapping hazards when it goes back down :-)
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Well I had not thought of that before. Thanks for the heads up
 
9fingers":1s4q0iut said:
Mutley racers":1s4q0iut said:
I also have an idea for a pop up table in the lounge. I just need to get the wife to come around to it.

We have suspended timber floors which have quite a nice void below. What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

I hope I am allowed to post that here. If Not, Sorry.

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
Click to expand...

I built a heavy duty lifting mechanism for a 1/4 ton thicknesser which works well but a big engineering job and way OTT for what you need. There is a write up here
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1665

In your position I'd look at adapting a concealed TV lift mechanism. You will need to endure that in the lowered position, the floor will be adequately supported and NOT by the lift mechanism.

Bob
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Hi. Thanks for the link to your post. It sounds interesting and I will check it out. Will also look at the tv lift idea.
 
Andyp":30rcfv3q said:
You've done a cracking job of the garden and the table idea sounds like an interesting project too. Looking forward to seeing that one develop.
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Thank you
 
TrimTheKing":3gueldzc said:
I love that idea and demand to see it built!! :lol:

Send SWMBO to me and I'll convince her!

Cheers
Mark
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Glad you like my idea. Hopefully I will see it come to fruition. Unfortunately I don't understand what SWMBO stands for?
 
Welcome to the forum. 8-)


Mutley racers":2agibrmo said:
What I would like to do is cut the floorboards staggered either side and underneath them attach a beer fridge which is on hydraulics or some kind of lifting mechanism. Wire this to a button above the sofa so when a game is on I can push the button and the floor pops up to be a table which has cooled beers in it. When done, press the button and it pops back to being a floor. Nice

If anyone has any advice on how I can make my beer table work I would be greatful. Hehe
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Here is a slightly different approach to having the beer near the TV. 8-) :D

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So, after reading the threads on building a workshop I have been thinking about buying one instead!

Anyone know where to buy a flat pack one I can assemble myself? With big clear instructions with pictures and writing.

Hehe
 
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